Selected Publications

Book:

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

“I Try To Do the Best Job I Can: Herbert Ruffin I and Life in Central Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area, 1946-2002” (Oral History), in Lone Star Legacy:African American History in Texas (Bi-Annual Journal) (Vol. 2, Num. 2, Fall 2013), 7-34.

“Sunnyhills: Race and Working Class Politics in Postwar Silicon Valley, 1945-1968,” Journal of the West [“Best of the Decade” issue] (Fall 2009), 113-123.

Accepted for Publication:

"The Forging of an African American Community on the Outskirts of Alamo City: African American Suburbanization in San Antonio, 1980-2000”, in M. Scott Sosebee, and Paul Sandul (et.al) Lone Star Suburbs: The Suburban Process in a Super-State (College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, forthcoming Fall 2014).

“From Orchards to Silicon Valley: African American Suburbanization in the U.S. West, the Black San Jose Model, 1945-2000,” in Yuya Kiuchi’s edited volume, Race Still Matters (forthcoming SUNY Press, 2014).

Under Review:

Article Manuscript, ““Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”: San Jose and the Origins of the Black Athletic Revolt, 1956-1968” (Submitted to The Western Journal of Black Studies)

Other Publications: Report and Book Chapters:

“Memory and the Nation State: Day One Orientation and Welcome Report,” in People to People Ambassador Programs. Journal of Professional Proceedings (Historical Studies Delegation to South Africa: Delegate Leader Elaine May, former OAH President, October 25-November 4, 2010)

Book Reviews:

Charles M. Robinson III, The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2008) for the New Mexico Historical Review (Summer 2012), 373-374.

Rev. France A. Davis, and Nayra Atiya, France Davis (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2007) for the Journal of the American West (Fall 2007), 88-88.

Johnnella E. Butler, Color-Lines to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001) for the Journal of the West (Fall 2004)

Jack M. Balkin, et. al., What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (New York: New York University Press, 2001) for the Journal of the West (Spring 2003)

Herb Ruffin II and The Program in African American (National Museum of American History), A Quest for Freedom: The Black Experience in the American West (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2001-2002, retired), Projects: Webpage and brochures

Africans on the North American Frontier, 1528-1864, (Claremont, CA: RUFF Multimedia, 1999-2001, retired).